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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

More recently, Google saw an idyllic future in organizing the world’s information and making it readily assessable to the masses. Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. Apple has been adept at the vision game for a quarter of a century.

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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. If "10" is outstanding and "1" is poor, how do you rate your organization on each of these? Organizational change is driven by marketplace factors: customers, competition, government regulation, and science and technology.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 3.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. I discussed creating a ‘learning – thinking’ organization in the first article and a trusting organization in the following two. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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The First Two Steps Toward Breaking Down Silos in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Silos create an environment where sharing and collaborating for anything other than one silo's special interests is virtually impossible. They change because they are forced to by customers, by competition, by advances in science and technology, and by government regulation. Is silos a big issue in your organization?

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? Strategic investments are critical to future business success. They create or support a transformation in how the organization conducts its business, with the aim of providing competitive advantage. Implementation criteria.

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Stop Bashing HR

Harvard Business Review

Especially today , recruitment, retention, and development of human capital is a critical success factor for almost any organization. One possibility is that the criticisms could be true. Some organizations do have weak HR functions that mostly perform transactional work that doesn't add unique value.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.